Europe – North
Top Family-Friendly Cities for Europe Travel
Photo above is a view of Tuileries Garden in Paris. Trying to assess which cities are popular for family travel tourists, we rely on news media accounts and travel industry figures. But there are so many factors, like things-to-do, kid-friendly places to eat, open space parks, or family-friendly hotels, and so on. And so many…
Read MoreFamily Accommodations in Rothenburg, Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Need a family hotel in Rothenburg, near the Munich airport, or Galrmisch-Partenkirchen? Here are 3 family-friendly hotels for 5 or 6 people in these Germany popular tourist-spots. A mom from Adelaide, Australia, who has a 5-person family, contacted us recently to share her reviews of these accommodations. She said she is “happy to help others”…
Read MorePrague: Summer 2012 with Family of Five
The City of Prague by William Jeffery Prowse I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot; . . . Though the latitude’s rather uncertain, And the longitude also is vague, The persons I pity who know not the City The beautiful City of Prague. The city of “golden spires” has captured…
Read MoreTravel with 3 Boys: Incentive to Behave
The problem: They fight! It is not easy to corral 3 boys, which is frequently necessary when traveling. There are always waits for boardings, check-ins, subways, tables, and much more. And when the boys are corralled, they use tactics like a pinch or prod to annoy one another for entertainment, or for revenge from some…
Read MoreFamily Travel Dining in Germany – A Word to Know
Please and thank you are the most important foreign language words to learn when traveling; crucial for civil discourse. But there’s one word we did not expect to need to know: Rechnung. In Germany last summer, most service employees at restaurants and cafes helped us with their excellent command of English. But still we practiced…
Read MoreCity Tour – Top Pick for Family Travel
A bus tour was not included on our London agenda years ago because they are expensive, at least for our tight budget. But we splurged last summer, taking a live-guide bus tour of Munich, and a few days later, a recorded-audio bus tour of Berlin. Now that we’ve experienced those tours in Germany, we will…
Read MoreBefore Your Family Travels – Teach Geography with a Game!
My working knowledge of geography is limited — in school I’d memorize enough to get an ‘A’ on the test, then let it go. Having 3 boys who seem to soak up country, city, mountain, and water body names like sponges, though, has increased my interest in the subject. And now, searching for hotel family…
Read MoreFamily of 5 in Munich for 53 Euros Per Person Per Day
Declared as “the most expensive city in Germany” on wikitravel.org, Munich is not cheap to visit. Affordable Europe leader Rick Steves says you can comfortably eat and sleep there for $100 per person per day, and lonelyplanet.com travelers report spending 50 to 70 Euros per person per day. Based on these figures noted by budget…
Read MoreBuy Kids a Nintendo DS Adapter for Europe Travel
We prepared thoroughly for our dream vacation to Germany last summer. Gathered over a period of months: travel books, passports, Google maps, email hotel confirmations, fanny packs, and of course, International Plug Adapters for all the electronics. We knew that nearly every day we’d need to charge the laptop, the digital camera, the second digital…
Read MoreTube, U-Bahn, Subway – Family Travel Safety
Notice the logo used for this blog and our website, sleeps5.com. The image is of a family of ducks on their way. Even before Holly and I constructed our website we consistently utilized a duckling analogy to describe the image of traversing busy sidewalks in big cities with 3 children. You know – the mama…
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